but fortunately help is on the way, thanks to president-elect donald trump's victory this november, and thanks to the outcome of house and senate races throughout the country, we now have the opportunity to uproot this ill-conceived health care law. root and branch. now the old system, to be clear, is far from perfect. after we repeal obamacare, we'll still have much work to do in unbundling health care from employer-provided health insurance so that doctors, nurses, patients and innovators ca do the work of bringing down prices and increasing quality. you see, madam president, that is what happens when we allow the free market to operate. we get competition. and when people compete, two things happen that are important to consumers. prices go down and quality goes up. that's what the american people have come to expect in basically every other sector of our economy. but sadly, we've seen the opposite become true with respect to our health care system under obamacare because we've restricted free market forces and we've thereby impeded competition. as a result, prices have gone up and q